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Renew - Expecting a COVID-19 bump up

September 2020

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Engineering services company Renew, led now by chief executive Paul Scott, is sailing majestically through COVID-19. When I caught up with Scott back in June, Renew’s first half results had set new records for sales, pretax profit, earnings and operating margins. These results had covered just a couple of weeks of COVID-19 but brokers suspect that the disruptive impact on forecast earnings is only 10-15% for the full year, with Renew’s Engineering Services side proving to be resilient in the face of COVID-19 because much of what it is doing is maintenance and renewal and its clients do not have the option to stop the work.Around 80% of Renew’s activities continued even throughout the worst of the crisis. The Rail and Highw ...

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Market Comment - September '20

Superdry - Q1 trading better than initial expectations

Renew - Buys attractive business maintaining 490 UK wind turbines (November 2024)

Renew Holdings - Shares become 17-bagger (July 2024)

Renew Holdings (December 2023)

Renew Holdings (June 2023)

Renew Holdings (June 2022)

Renew Holdings (January 2022)

Renew Holdings (June 2021)

Renew - Pension about to be consigned to history (January 2021)

Renew - Materially ahead of expectations (October 2020)

Renew - Renewal and maintenance work not badly interrupted by COVID (June 2020)

Renew Holdings - Enters highways sector with £38m deal (March 2020)

Renew Holdings (January 2020)

Renew - Shares break into new territory (June 2019)

Renew - QTS acquisition takes rail segment to 60% of profit (June 2018)

Renew Holdings (December 2016)

Renew Holdings - WH Ireland forecasts eps of 27.5p for the year (June 2016)

Renew - Gain to date: 655% (December 2015)

Renew Holdings (June 2015)

Renew Holdings - Ultimate bit of refocusing with disposal of Allenbuild (December 2014)

Renew - Enters the gas infrastructure market with acquisition (September 2014)

Renew (June 2014)

Renew - Forecast upgrade after telecoms acquisition (May 2014)

Renew - AMCO benefits from flood remediation work (March 2014)

Renew (February 2014)

Renew (December 2013)

Renew Holdings - Eps accretive aquisition (September 2013)

Renew Holdings - Another AMCO-type deal sought (June 2013)

Renew - Full year results in the bag (June 2012)

Renew - Engineering services now 66% of order book (February 2012)

Renew - Valued as a construction company rather than higher rated support services (December 2011)

Renew Holdings (October 2009)

Renew (August 2009)

Renew Holdings (April 2009)

Renew - Cash of £28m (December 2008)

Renew (November 2008)

Renew Holdings (June 2008)

Renew Holdings (May 2008)

Renew Holdings - FY08 forecasts raised again (December 2007)

Renew (September 2007)

Renew - Cash rises to Â£27m (June 2007)

Renew - Shares jump to over Â£1 (April 2007)

Renew (February 2007)

Renew Holdings - Focus of building on retail, education and social housing improves margins (January 2007)

Renew Holdings - Chart looks set to move sharply higher (May 2006)

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Renew - Expecting a COVID-19 bump up

September 2020

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